The contest "Youth Union with population and development work" of Yen Lac district brings a lot of useful knowledge to young people about population work. Photo: Duong Chung
With the goal of creating a playground and opportunity for healthy, useful, and practical exchanges for union members and young people to demonstrate their talents, intelligence, creativity, and share knowledge and perspectives on population work, gender, gender equality, and gender imbalance at birth, Yen Lac District Union has coordinated with the District Health Center to organize the contest "Youth Union with population and development work".
At the contest, the participating teams performed in the following sections: Greeting, knowledge, talent. The team members answered questions related to population and family planning (DS-KHHGĐ). In particular, in the contest, the participating teams had familiar skits, criticizing backward customs and consequences of having many children, male preference over female, gender imbalance at birth, and the benefits of implementing family planning. The contest attracted a large number of young people from communes and towns in the district to participate.
To promoteeducation and communication on population work, every year, the Provincial Youth Union coordinates to organize propaganda activities in many forms such as oral propaganda, thematic talks, propaganda on social networking sites and websites managed by the Youth Union - Association at all levels, communication through visual means, organizing competitions with skits on pushing back child marriage, consanguineous marriage, sex education, reproductive health... Thereby, raising awareness of union members, members, youth and adolescents about population and family planning work.
The Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee - Provincial Youth Union Secretariat directs the grassroots Youth Union - Association to coordinate in organizing educational and communication activities for students at schools during extracurricular activities and collective activities. At the same time, provide necessary knowledge and skills to help students apply to have a healthy life physically and mentally, as well as protect themselves and be more bold in sharing and discussing about psychology and physiology in adolescence, confidently entering life.
In localities, Youth Unions at all levels coordinate with relevant sectors to organize many programs and activities to help raise awareness and responsibility of union members, youth, and people about the importance of population and family planning work.
Through these activities, union members, youth and people have been equipped with basic knowledge about reproductive health, gender, prenatal and newborn screening, and birth rate reduction... Thereby, contributing to improving the quality of the population in the area as well as improving the quality of human resources in the future.
The Youth Union at all levels regularly coordinates with the Provincial Population Department to disseminate to the Youth Union members at the Youth Union bases and in schools the contents of equipping skills and fostering basic knowledge on reproductive health care, sexual health; knowledge on pre-marital reproductive health, adolescent reproductive health; counseling on contraceptive measures, consequences of abortion; maternal and child health care; consanguineous marriage; psychology of love, gender... Every year, the rate of young men and women receiving pre-marital health consultation and examination reaches nearly 90%.
The practical programs and activities implemented in population education and communication for youth have contributed to raising awareness of population and family planning work among people, especially young people. Thereby, the quality of the population has been increasingly improved, the situation of early marriage, consanguineous marriage, and basic health care for the people has been met.
Dieu Linh
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